Most of the people whose privacy the National Security Agency is violating are not the intended targets of surveillance.
“In NSA-intercepted data, those not targeted far outnumber the foreigners who are”
Barton Gellman, Julie Tate, and Ashkan Soltani, The Washington Post, July 5, 2014
►http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/in-nsa-intercepted-data-those-not-targeted-far-outnumber-the-foreigners-who-are/2014/07/05/8139adf8-045a-11e4-8572-4b1b969b6322_story.html
Tiny Constables and the Cost of #Surveillance: Making Cents Out of United States v. Jones, by Kevin S. Bankston and Ashkan Soltani, 09 January 2014 via @artemis1 ▻http://seenthis.net/messages/217187
▻http://www.yalelawjournal.org/the-yale-law-journal-pocket-part/constitutional-law/tiny-constables-and-the-cost-of-surveillance:-making-cents-out-of-un
C’est la technologie, plus que la loi, qui limite la #surveillance de masse - Technologie Review
▻http://www.technologyreview.com/view/516691/technology-not-law-limits-mass-surveillance
Pour le consultant et expert en sécurité Ashkan Soltani c’est l’amélioration de la technologie qui a permis des programmes de surveillance massifs tels que #prism et les améliorations à venir risquent surtout de la rendre plus facile encore. La NSA a profité de l’utilisation accrue des communications numériques et des services de cloud computing, couplée avec des lois sur la vie privée obsolètes pour élargir et rationaliser leurs programmes de surveillance. La techno a réduit le temps et le coût de la (...)
Le titre est un peu trompeur en anglais, encore plus en français. Dans le sens de l’article, ce serait plutôt « La technologie permet une surveillance que la loi ne permet plus d’enrayer » :
What we have learned about the NSA’s capabilities suggests a move toward programmatic, automated surveillance previously unfathomable due to limitations of computing speed, scale, and cost. Technical advances have both reduced the barriers to surveillance and increased the NSA’s capacity for it. We need to remember that this is a trend with a firm lower bound. Once the cost of surveillance reaches zero we will be left with our outdated laws as the only protection. Whatever policy actions are taken as a result of the recent leaks should address the fact that technical barriers such as cost and speed offer dwindling protection from unwarranted government surveillance domestically and abroad.
De la personnalisation des résultats de Google - Actualité Abondance
►http://www.abondance.com/actualites/20121220-12138-de-la-personnalisation-des-resultats-de-google.html
Une étude du moteur de recherche Duck Duck Go montre à quel point les réusltats de recherche de Google peuvent être différents d’un internaute à l’autre pour le même mot clé...
Websites Vary Prices, Deals Based on Users’ Information - WSJ.com
►http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323777204578189391813881534.html
via @sebastien_ferry sur Twitter
By JENNIFER VALENTINO-DEVRIES, JEREMY SINGER-VINE and ASHKAN SOLTANI
It was the same Swingline stapler, on the same Staples.com SPLS +0.22% website. But for Kim Wamble, the price was $15.79, while the price on Trude Frizzell’s screen, just a few miles away, was $14.29.
A key difference: where Staples seemed to think they were located.
A Wall Street Journal investigation found that the Staples Inc. website displays different prices to people after estimating their locations. More than that, Staples appeared to consider the person’s distance from a rival brick-and-mortar store, either OfficeMax Inc. OMX +0.96% or Office Depot Inc. ODP -3.60% If rival stores were within 20 miles or so, Staples.com usually showed a discounted price.